We see images of Washington, DC as it looks today on a regular basis --- the Capitol building, the White House, the National Mall, maybe the monuments and memorials. But what did it look like when it was the nation’s new Capital City? Do you have any idea? Can you picture it in your head?

Why did the new United States of America need gardens? After all not everyone has gardens today. And does anyone care? Today almost everyone has a mobile phone and we could honestly live without one. So, why is it essential that we have one? Every youth measures his/her worth and how well he/she fits-in by having or not having just the right mobile phone. Well, the young Unites States was no different.

It‘s a waiting game each year as to when the approximately 3,800 cherished cherry trees in DC ‘s Tidal Basin area will finally grace the city with their lovely, fluffy blossoms. But this year the anticipation is worse than usual!

A museum is a collection of people’s ideas and beliefs over time. The objects that make up a museum collection present a picture of what was important during the particular time period of the collected objects. Collected objects can be --- building parts, textiles, art, objects of daily use, documents, architecture, plants, animals, recordings, photographs, etc.

St John’s Episcopal Church is a lovely church with yellow stuccoed walls located at 16th and H Streets, across from the Lafayette Square in the northwest quadrant of Washington, DC. The cornerstone was laid on September 14, 1815, 15 years after President John Adams (second president of the United States) and his wife Abigail Adams, moved into the newly constructed White House.